Iridium Seeking Higher OOBE Limits, Exclusion Zones on Ligado LTE
Approval of Ligado's LTE plans must include conditions protecting Iridium operations from interference, Iridium said in a series of meetings this week with all three FCC commissioners and staffers, said an ex parte filing Wednesday in docket 11-109. It recapped…
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meetings with Iridium Vice President-Public Policy Maureen McLaughlin about Iridium's spectrum at 1617.775-1626.5 MHz, adjacent to 10 MHz of Ligado uplink spectrum. The company said it's still working with Ligado on technical fixes to interference concerns, but the agency should consider such conditions as reduced out-of-band emission (OOBE) from Ligado mobile terminals into Iridium bandwidth and exclusion zones around airport facilities where Ligado user terminal operation would be banned to protect aviation satellite communications. Iridium said Ligado's OOBE limit proposal is insufficient. Ligado Thursday said it "filed publicly a proposal that addresses Iridium’s concerns, and we hope to continue our discussions with Iridium on that proposal as soon as possible to find a mutually agreeable solution.”